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All that artistic grace and tenderness can win for us? Clouds and darkness rise before us as we read, the mother of our Lord loses her sanctity, Jesus becomes an impostor, the apostles deceivers, human testimony is forever dishonored. A pall shrouds the infinite blue of the sky, and our beloved dead seem festering in eternal corruption!
He, the seducer often the grossest of deceivers, the instigator of the crime because he is a man, is countenanced by the many, his conduct palliated, and himself received as an honored guest, even in the highest circles of society.
What was the good of a husband like that? It's a terrible thing the way some men treat women." I condoled with Tiare, and remarked feelingly that men were deceivers ever, then asked her to go on with her story of Strickland. "'Well, I said to him, 'there's no hurry about it. Take your time and think it over. Ata has a very nice room in the annexe.
Les Gnomes de Sidi Abdir Rahman El Medjedoub. Paris, 1896. "Deceptive women are deceivers ever, I hastened to escape them. They girdle themselves with vipers, And fasten their gowns with scorpions." "Let not thyself fall victim to a widow, Even if her cheeks are bouquets, For though you are the best of husbands, She will repeat ceaselessly, 'God, be merciful to the dead."
When the workmen came back in the evening Atli told them of his conversation with Thorbjorn and said to Ali that he must go his own ways, for he was not going to be drawn into a quarrel for employing him. Ali said: "True is the ancient saying: The over-praised are the worst deceivers. I did not think that you would have turned me off now after I had worked here till I broke in the summer.
'Sigh no more lady, lady sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot on sea and one on land To one thing constant never. Old Ballad. 'So you have ventured out again, said Lady Kirkaldy, as her nephew strolled up to her afternoon tea-table under a great cedar tree: 'The coast being clear, and only distant shouts being heard in the ravine
There is a set of people in India more dangerous than wild beasts. They are called Thugs, that is, deceivers; and well do they deserve the name; for their whole employment is to deceive that they may destroy. Yet they are not ashamed of their wickedness; for they worship the goddess Kalee, and they know that she delights in blood.
A just balance shalt thou have; else they may be, yea are, deceivers, notwithstanding their just weights. Now, having commanded that men have a just balance, and testifying that a false one is an abomination to the Lord, he proceedeth also unto weight and measure. Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; that is, one to buy by, and another to sell by, as Mr. Badman had.
It is rarer than anything you may remember of Macaulay's essay upon the everlastingly execrable Florentine. "Men are a little breed" might have been Machiavelli's motto. Or he might have said "the more I see of men the better I like dogs." He is remorseless in seeing only that men are ungrateful, fickle, deceivers, greedy of gain, run-aways before peril, readier to pay back injury than kindness.
I presume it looked like an appointment. It was an accident, Juanita. It's all over between Mrs. Morton and Gregory Carker." But the girl remembered how she had seen them standing there looking into each other's eyes, while the woman's arm was on Carker's shoulder. "Wait, señor!" she panted. "Many time I have been told all the Americans are deceivers. I know what I see with my eyes.
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